Free printable vowel team — ai phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.
A free illustrated mini-book for Vowel Team — AI, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
A full-color picture book your student reads on their own. Skill: Vowel Team — AI. Print, cut and staple.
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Brad got a big box in the mail. It was a plain brown box.
"I will make a train," Brad said.
He laid the box on the grass.
His dog Gus ran up. Gus gave a wag of his tail.
"Sit, Gus," Brad said. "Do not step on my box!"
Just then, Brad felt a cold drop on his hand. The sun was gone. It was rain!
"Oh no! My train will get wet," Brad yelled.
He got his box. Gus ran with him.
Use ai in the middle of a word. Use ay at the end of a word.
Print it full size for the wall, or smaller for a phonics notebook.
The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
rain, main, pain, gain, fail, jail, mail, nail, sail, tail
zain, vaim, baif, taip, jaid, naig
AI and AY words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
All 196 vowel team worksheets in one file, with answer keys.
Get the pack for $7 All 6 levels (700+ sheets) for $254 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's vowel team — ai words. Each one opens as its own file.
Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.
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A new decodable story with the same vowel team — ai sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free long a (ai) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the AI vowel team (long A sound). Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.
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